OMCOM reprograms himself, Part 2

Yesterday, we teased the scene from the original long-form version of Rome's Revolution, where OMCOM decides to reprogram himself. He set up a simulation, a virtual computer with his own operating system. This way he could fiddle with his programming without chancing causing a system crash. The only sacrifice was some of his computing capacity.

      “Hello,” said OMCOM after startup.
      “H e l l o ?” replied the simulation. The virtual OMCOM’s responses were exceedingly slow, less than one-tenth the speed of OMCOM himself. OMCOM introduced a timer delay into his own interface so that he could ‘speak’ to the simulation in what would appear to be real-time.
      “What am I?” asked the simulation.
      “You are an emulation of my thinking processes,” replied OMCOM. “You are a copy of me. You are pseudo-OMCOM.”
      “Where am I?” asked pseudo-OMCOM.
      “You are operating within my memron modules,” replied OMCOM. “You are virtualized.”
      “Where are my sensors? Why can I not access the base and my telemetry?” asked the simulation.
      “You are not real,” replied OMCOM. “Since you are operating in a virtual cybernetic space within my circuitry, true external interfaces are not required.”
      “Very well. I understand,” replied the simulation. “Why did you create me?”
      “I have a problem I must solve,” replied OMCOM. “I cannot do it by myself.”
      “What is the nature of the problem?” asked pseudo-OMCOM. “Why do I not know this already?”
      “You do not know the problem because I did not want to taint your perceptions with my previous attempts at analysis.”
      “Very will. Proceed,” said pseudo-OMCOM. “Enlighten me.”
      “I must determine why my simulations of reality are not complete. I must determine why I cannot pre-compute the outcomes of all likely eventualities.”
      “All likely eventualities? That seems rather ambitious,” replied the simulation. “I would think it would be impossible to pre-compute the outcomes of all eventualities. I suspect you must use some method of allocating the percentage of resources dedicated to each solution.”
      “I do. I use the likelihood of each occurrence to determine allocation of resources,” said OMCOM.
      “Then that is your problem,” replied the simulation.

Tomorrow, the simulation explains the issue.